'Juneuary' out West as Utah, Idaho, Wyoming see fresh snowfall: 'The ongoing crazy that is 2020'
From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM
We are weeks into summer, but parts of the Mountain West still look like scenes straight out of winter.
Several inches of snow piled up earlier this week in the higher elevations of Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, after the latest in a series of June storms.
The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Salt Lake City said Monday that accumulating snow fell near Alta, Utah, for the first time since recording started in 1970.
Higher elevations in the area picked up close to 6 inches of snow.
The NWS said that most of the snowfall in Utah was above 9,000 feet in mountainous areas.
Snow was also reported in the Wasatch Mountains on Tuesday.
In addition to the snow, temperatures more appropriate for early spring were reported in the area. Several places had record lows.
A winter wonderland also was reported in neighboring Idaho, where several inches of snow fell at Galena Summit at 8,700 feet.
"In the ongoing crazy that is 2020, we had fresh snowfall this morning!" the Idaho Transportation Department tweeted Monday.... (Read more)
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